Protecting Children Since 1902…
| February 13, 2012
Author: luapo
Kodak to Stop Making Digital Cameras
| February 13, 2012
First, the company watched demand for traditional photographic film collapse. It stopped manufacturing film cameras in 2004 and made its final roll of 35mm colour film in 2009.
It also saw smartphones eat into the lower end of the digital camera market. Just six years ago, Kodak was one of the three leading digital camera makers in the world.
Kodak’s chief executive and chairman Antonio Perez has reportedly decided that the company’s future lies in the digital printer business.
A Scientific Look at the Dangers of High Heels
| February 12, 2012
How shoes affect human gait is a controversial topic these days. The popularity of barefoot running, for instance, has grown in large part because of the belief, still unproven, that wearing modern, well-cushioned running shoes decreases foot strength and proprioception, the sense of how the body is positioned in space, and contributes to running-related injuries.
Whether high heels might likewise affect the wearer’s biomechanics and injury risk has received scant scientific attention, however, even though millions of women wear heels almost every day. So, in one of the first studies of its kind, the Australian scientists recruited nine young women who had worn high heels for at least 40 hours a week for a minimum of two years. The scientists also recruited 10 young women who rarely, if ever, wore heels to serve as controls. The women were in their late teens, 20s or early 30s.
What MoPo is Like to Me – Righteous
| February 12, 2012
Will Listening to Mozart Really Make Me Smarter?
| February 12, 2012
Yes, but no more than listening to Justin Bieber. The misconception that there’s something unique about Mozart’s ability to increase brainpower began in 1993, with a paper in Nature. Neurobiologists Gordon Shaw, Frances Rauscher and Katherine Ky of the University of California at Irvine found that students who listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata demonstrated a temporary increase in spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by an IQ test. The public seized on the romantic idea that listening to Mozart would make them smarter, and Don Campbell, a teacher and music educator from Texas, capitalized on the notion with an international bestseller, The Mozart Effect.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Marathon three month tattoo
| February 12, 2012
A Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs fan has paid the ultimate tribute to her favourite film – by having the entire cast of characters etched on her skin.
Annfaye Kao, 27, from Taichung, Taiwan, had the intricate art work inked across her whole back in a marathon three month tattoo session. The colourful patchwork of cartoons was inspired by a dream she once had about the fairy tale
